Analytic vocabulary poetry

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The repeating of the initial letter for aesthetic effect: ‘the bright, broad, blade’.

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

The repeating of vowel sounds for aesthetic effect: ‘low, close, clouds’.

Question 3

Chorus

Answer 3

In songs a few lines that re repeated at the end of each stanza. In Greek drama a group of people on stage who act as a communal character and recite verses.

Question 4

Enjambment

Answer 4

The following on of a line of poetry so there is no pause at the end of the line.

Question 5

Refrain

Answer 5

The repeating of a single line in a poem, often the last line of a stanza.

Question 6

Repetend

Answer 6

A recurring word or phrase, not necessarily as formally arranged as a refrain.

Question 7

Sibilance

Answer 7

The aesthetic use of the hissing ‘s’ sound: ‘So many slights, so many sighs, so many sneers’.

Question 8

Stanza

Answer 8

The divisions of a poem.

Question 9

Verse

Answer 9

The word is sometimes used to refer to poetry in general as in ‘written in verse, not in prose’ but can be used to mean the same as stanza.